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Based on tried and tested therapeutic methods, this perennially valuable book invites the reader to embark on a course of self-therapy designed to develop an awareness of self and a growth of the personality. Employing the wide-ranging techniques of the Gestalt approach, it offers a series of experiments which will help the less severely neurotic reader to heighten awareness, sensory perception and motoric behaviour, and to deepen the capacity to enjoy interpersonal relationships. It thus provides a refreshingly practical insight into one of the most important psychotherapeutic techniques of our time. The authors explain in detail the theory behind the practical application, discussing the chief known methods of psychotherapy from Freud to the present day. They range widely over the fundamental problems of the perception of reality, the meaning of maturition and the ills of language and society, pointing out the deficiencies of our modern way of life that have imparted the vicarious and artificial character to the existence of the average person. Starting from the premise that experience begins at the contact boundary, they examine the nature of that experience before going on to investigate the various obstacles that stand in the way of maturition and growth. They stress the need for completion of unfinished situations, without which it is impossible to assimilate the new (in the same way that one can do no more than swallow a meal intil the previous one has been digested). In a key section, they discuss the creative process and its relationship to verbalisation both in poetry and prose.
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As mentioned above, this is probably the classic text on Gestalt Therapy written by perhaps its most famous practitioner Fritz Perls, with help from others. Perls was notorious for hating abstraction and theorizing, yet here comes over as a brilliant therorist in addition to being a charismatic therapist.
There are theoretical discussions in this book on how the psyche is viewed in the Gestalt Approach, and Perls is largely non-partisan in this when looking at the applicablity of certain rival theories. He is broadly fair to Freud's achievement in the creation of therapy, without completely going along with everything. He is similarly fair to other such as Jung, Karen Horney and Wilhelm Reich, though there is not as much discussion of them. The text inevitably concentrates on his own approach.
The style is scholarly, but certainly not unreadable. There are a number of practical exercises which might help someone, in therapy or not, to become more aware of their mind and body, with testamonies form clients / patients who have benefitted from their use. In the second half, Perls looks Gestalt theroies of self and various mechanisms observed in the psyche. All of this makes for fascinating reading
This book is essential for Gestalt practitioners, and counselling students. Though book is clear and well written, it is perhaps not ideal for beginners. However, that is not a criticism. This book is probably meant for a more advanced audience. For those new to Gestalt and Perls that I would recommend the wonderful and lively Gestalt Therapy Verbatim, which is a transcript of his workshops at Esalen. All the same there are rich pickings in this volume for anyone regardless of theraputic approach.
There are theoretical discussions in this book on how the psyche is viewed in the Gestalt Approach, and Perls is largely non-partisan in this when looking at the applicablity of certain rival theories. He is broadly fair to Freud's achievement in the creation of therapy, without completely going along with everything. He is similarly fair to other such as Jung, Karen Horney and Wilhelm Reich, though there is not as much discussion of them. The text inevitably concentrates on his own approach.
The style is scholarly, but certainly not unreadable. There are a number of practical exercises which might help someone, in therapy or not, to become more aware of their mind and body, with testamonies form clients / patients who have benefitted from their use. In the second half, Perls looks Gestalt theroies of self and various mechanisms observed in the psyche. All of this makes for fascinating reading
This book is essential for Gestalt practitioners, and counselling students. Though book is clear and well written, it is perhaps not ideal for beginners. However, that is not a criticism. This book is probably meant for a more advanced audience. For those new to Gestalt and Perls that I would recommend the wonderful and lively Gestalt Therapy Verbatim, which is a transcript of his workshops at Esalen. All the same there are rich pickings in this volume for anyone regardless of theraputic approach.
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Thanks Amazon for making available at a reasonable price, a classic of Gestalt psychotherapy, and an adddition to any good library of psychololy.
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